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Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Margaret Urban Walker
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Abstract

Feminist discussions of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition range from critiques of the substance of dominant moral theories to critiques of the very practice of “doing ethics” itself. I argue that these critiques really target a certain historically specific model of ethics and moral theory—a “theoretical-juridical” one. I outline an “expressive'Collaborative” conception of morality and ethics that could be a politically self-conscious and reflexively critical alternative.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 23 - 38
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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